For Addiction Awareness Week, Jeremy Hooker’s poignant masterpiece chronicling efforts to combat the alcoholism that contributed to the death of his wife Mieke, based largely on his journals over a 10 year period from 1997 - 2007. A tough but beautiful read. Published by @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social

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Editor, publisher and translator Tony Frazer founded Shearsman magazine in 1981, shortly followed by @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social, with more than 900 poetry & poetry-related publications now in print. Browse and buy their new & recent titles at #smallpublishersfair25, London, Fri 24 / Sat 25 October

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Eliza O’Toole – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍

On A Cranic of Ordinaries (@shearsmanbooks):
“99% of writing is thinking. My practice is a lifetime of voluminous reading—law, botany, philosophy, etymologies—all percolating into poetry.”

🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...

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Two from Shearsman: A Review Clio’s Ground: New and Selected Poems, Fergal Gaynor, Shearsman Books, 2025, ISBN: 9781848619654, £10.95 Buying the Farm (a georgics of sorts), Eliza O’Toole, Shearsman Books, 2025, ISB…

Review time, with two Shearsman titles:
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22.09.2025 11:37 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

This time last year I discovered Kenny Knight and read his previous with @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social, warming to his candid realism and delightful imaginative tangents. The poetry here reflects even more on experiences of isolation, loss and constraint while escaping in glorious other worlds

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And those of you outside the UK will be able to order the humongous Sobin Collected Poems from the Usual Suspects amongst the online retailers. If you're in the US do NOT order from us in the UK as postage will be about $50: got to Indiebound, Barnes & Noble online, or, yes, Amazon.

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Book cover shows the author, Gustaf Sobin, at his writing desk.

And now for a new book. Just out here, although we don't actually have physical copies yet, is Gustaf Sobin's Collected Poems, all 738-pages, in both paperback and hardcover editions. In the UK we can supply from stock (once we have some, which will be next week.)
www.shearsman.com/store/Gustaf...

17.09.2025 18:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cover of Petra White's book, That Galloping Horse, with a photo of the author.

and while we're talking about prices, Petra White has been shortlisted for the Poetry Prize in the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards.... Prizes are given out next week.

17.09.2025 18:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

JR Carpenter - Laurel Prize: Below the Surface • Poetry School These pieces shine a light on the creative practice behind these outstanding collections. Here’s JR Carpenter on Measures of Weather.

and J.R. Carpenter on her collection—

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Carol Watts - Laurel Prize: Below the Surface • Poetry School These pieces shine a light on the creative practice behind these outstanding collections. Here’s Carol Watts on her collection Mimic Pond.

Carol Watts on her collection—

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Eliza O'Toole - Laurel Prize: Below the Surface • Poetry School These pieces shine a light on the creative practice behind these outstanding collections. Here’s Eliza O’Toole on A Cranic of Ordinaries.

Eliza O'Toole on her collection—

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We've just arrived on BlueSky. First up we'd like to tell you that we have three titles shortlisted in the Laurel Prizes for 2025. The Prize is being awarded 2 days from now but for now we're going to introduce you to the three books. See next posts.

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